American Principles a Review of Works of Fisher Ames
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The volume upon which i have already beftowed fo much confideration, and which will yet require more, furnifhes the anfwer. The " Dangers of American Liberty" is a fable with- out a moral. It paints in the gloomy colours of a difturb- ed imagination the fuppofed evils of our condition ; and labours with painful argumentation to prove that none of the remedies or alleviations which minds of healthier hue, had fuggefted, can have any efficacy to reftore us to the enjoyment of freedom. It indicate...s no remedy as advifa- ble to be tried. What was the reafon of this ? In a free country the firft ftep of ambitious and difap- pointed leaders, whofe only refource is in a revolution, muft naturally be to make the people difiatisfied with their condition To perfuade them that their fituation is intolerable The next, to extinguifh all their hopes of its amendment from the natural courfe of things, and exift- ing inftitutions The third is Revolution. Until the two firft are accomplifhed, the inftigators to the laft, muft of- ten conceal, and fometimes difguife the means for its ac- complifhment.
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